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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 02/08/2008

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

News Briefing

News Briefing: 02/08/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 02/08/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Ernie Rea.

Big Fish, Small Ponds

Big Fish, Small Ponds: Episode 1: Whiteley Village and William Whiteley

Episode 1

Episode 1: Whiteley Village and William Whiteley

Whiteley Village and William Whiteley

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The village was built for deserving pensioners by the philanthropist William Whiteley.

David McKie explores some of Britain's most evocative spots and their local heroes. The village was built for deserving pensioners by the merchant philanthropist William Whiteley.

David McKie explores some of Britain's most evocative spots and their local heroes.

The village was built for deserving pensioners by the merchant William Whiteley. David reveals the extraordinary life and death of the philanthropist whose murderer believed he was Whiteley's illegitimate son.

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

David McKie explores some of Britain's most evocative spots and their local heroes

News and Papers

The news headlines, including a look at the newspapers

News and Papers: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News and Papers, 02/08/2008

News headlines, plus a look at the papers.

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

Weather

Weather: 02/08/2008

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Open Country

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of Britain

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles

Open Country: 02/08/2008

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Matt Baker discovers why bees make the Devon countryside so special.

Countryside magazine. Matt Baker discovers why bees make the Devon countryside so special.

Farming Today This Week

Farming Today This Week: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today This Week, 02/08/2008

News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.

News and issues in rural Britain, with Charlotte Smith.

Today

Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day

Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including religious reflections from Thought for the Day at 0748

Today: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 02/08/2008

Including Sports Desk; Thought for the Day; Weather.

With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Thought for the Day, Weather.

Presented by Evan Davis and James Naughtie.

Including:

Home Information Packs are not being given out by some estate agents, the Law Society suggests. Nick Salmon of the National Association of Estate Agents and Paul Marsh of the Law Society, discuss whether HIPs are working. 

A number of rare recordings, digitally cleaned up, are the subject of The Man Who Invented Stereo, a Radio 4 documentary about a lost genius called Alan Blumlein. Presenter Martin Shankleman discusses the electronics engineer.

Thought for the Day with Reverend Rob Marshall an Anglican Priest.

Barry George has been acquitted on appeal of the murder of BBC television presenter Jill Dando outside her London home. Barrister William Clegg QC, who defended George, discusses the verdict. 

The proposed new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent has been the subject of a prolonged protest. Dr Simon Lewis of Leeds University and Dr David Brown of the Institution of Chemical Engineers discuss whether coal should have a place in future energy supplies. 

The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival is beginning. Bernard Lockett, a speaker at the festival, explains the lasting appeal of the duo. 

Labour MPs continue to talk among themselves about David Miliband's article on how to revive the party's fortunes. Labour MP John McDonnell and former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine discuss rumours of a leadership contest. 

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many Americans chose to migrate to the Soviet Union. Their story did not end happily, with many ending up in Stalin's gulags. Author Tim Tzouliadis and Edward Lucas of The Economist discuss their journey.

Saturday Live

Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

Saturday Live: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 02/08/2008

Presenter Richard Coles is joined by Prue Leith. Featured poet is Murray Lachlan Young.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Presenter Richard Coles is joined by cookery guru Prue Leith and Robert Watson, a trainer of butlers.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them.

Presenter Richard Coles is joined by restauranteur and cookery guru Prue Leith, who currently heads the School Food Trust, the government campaign to improve school meals. The featured poet is Murray Lachlan Young.

Robert Watson, now a trainer of professional butlers, recalls a life spent in service, from his days as junior bottle washer at a hotel, to working as a head butler in a London hotel, where he catered for stars such as Madonna and Michael Jackson.

Robert Schifreen, a former teenage computer nerd, talks about his 15 minutes of fame in 1984, when he hacked into British Telecom's Prestel Service and found the password for the Duke of Edinburgh's personal account. Renee Botham takes us to her Space - the eating disorders unit of St Anne's Hospital, Tottenham, while listener Jackie Carpenter shares her inheritance tracks.

Excess Baggage

Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: Scottish Cycling - Hot Spots

Scottish Cycling - Hot Spots

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Benedict Allen examines the pleasures of Scottish cycling with Richard Guise.

SCOTTISH CYCLING – HOT SPOTS
Benedict Allen examines the pleasures of gentle adventure close to home with Richard Guise who has cycled the West Coast of Scotland, from the Mull of Kintyre to Cape Wrath; and talks to writer Andrew Mueller who travelled to some of the worlds most troubled places from Basra to Kosovo to get a closer understanding of the reasons behind political and social conflict.

Leonard and Marianne

BBC Radio 4 - Leonard and Marianne

The story of the late Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen's Norwegian muse.

The story of the late Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen's Norwegian muse, and the song she inspired, So Long, Marianne.

In 1960, on the Greek island of Hydra, a young Canadian poet on a state scholarship, Leonard Cohen, met Marianne Ihlen, the beautiful wife of a Norwegian novelist. The story of their romance, following her husband's desertion of her, and their eventual separation are immortalised in one of Cohen's earliest and best known songs, So Long, Marianne.

Forty-five years later, Cohen talked to Norwegian Radio about the song and then, in 2008, Marianne spoke for the first time in English about her role as 'muse'. With Marianne's death at the end of July, this is another opportunity to hear the story of their shared love, the passing of the years and their dearly-held memories.

Produced by Alan Hall (with thanks to NRK)
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

Test Match Special

Test Match Special: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Test Match Special, 02/08/2008

Coverage of the fourth day of the Third Test between England and South Africa at Edgbaston

Coverage of the fourth day of the Third Test between England and South Africa at Edgbaston. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld and Simon Mann. Including Shipping Forecast.

Coverage of the fourth day of the Third Test between England and South Africa at Edgbaston. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld and Simon Mann. With summaries from Shaun Pollock, Vic Marks and Alec Stewart.

Including Shipping Forecast.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 02/08/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather.

Loose Ends

An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy

Loose Ends: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, 02/08/2008

Peter Curran presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.

With Peter Curran. His guests are Cass Pennant, William Leith, Jo Bunting, Sam Kilcoyne, Shappi Khorsandi and Louis CK. Music is from James Hunter and Kitty, Daisy and Lewis.

Profile

An insight into the character of an influential figure making news headlines

Profile: Lord Colin Moynihan

Lord Colin Moynihan

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Rob Bonnet profiles Lord Colin Moynihan, Chair of the British Olympic Association.

Saturday Review

Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events, with Tom Sutcliffe and guests

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events

Saturday Review: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, 02/08/2008

Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week.

The Archive Hour

BBC Radio 4 Extra

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives

The Archive Hour: The Man who Invented Stereo

The Man who Invented Stereo

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Archive Hour, The Man who Invented Stereo

Martin Shankleman profiles Alan Blumlein, an unsung but remarkable inventor.

Martin Shankleman profiles Alan Blumlein, an unsung but remarkable pioneer in the fields of stereo recording, television and radar systems that played a major role in World War Two.

Martin Shankleman profiles Alan Blumlein, an unsung but remarkable inventor. During the 1930s he devised the world's first stereo recording system and many of the key features of television. He went on to pioneer radar systems that played a major role in Allied victory in the Second World War. Yet his untimely death on a secret radar testing mission has left his name relatively unknown. Had he lived, according to a colleague, he would have been seen as the Michael Faraday of the 20th century.

The Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady: Truth

Truth

Portrait of a Lady

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Isabel has been married for three years, but she is about to discover a startling truth.

Isabel marries the handsome, urbane Gilbert Osmond but she is about to discover a startling truth. Stars Anna Maxwell Martin.

Isabel has been married to the handsome and urbane Gilbert Osmond for three years. 

Like a sparkling and brilliant jewel, she is part of his collection of beautiful things, but she is about to discover a startling truth.

Conclusion of Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce.

Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne
Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst 
Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt 
Gilbert Osmond ...... Colin Stinton
Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables 
Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow 
Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson 
Countess Gemini ...... Barbara Barnes
Edward Rosier ...... Nyasha Hatendi
Mother Catherine ...... Joan Walker 
Narrator ...... William Hope 

Pianist: Duncan Walsh Atkins

Director: Tracey Neale.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008.

Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce

Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce, about a young American girl in England

News and Weather

The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4

News and Weather: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 02/08/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.

Moral Maze

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Moral Maze: 30/07/2008

30/07/2008

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Guests are Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Michael Portillo and Clifford Longley.

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Michael Portillo and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses.

Round Britain Quiz

Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions on unpredictable fields of knowledge

Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge

2008

Round Britain Quiz: 2008: Episode 5

Episode 5

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, 2008, Episode 5

Wales take on the South of England. Tom Sutcliffe chairs.

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the latest heat of the cryptic general knowledge quiz. Wales take on the South of England.

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the latest heat of the cryptic general knowledge quiz. Wales take on the South of England.

Questions from Programme 6

Question 1
Wales

Why would a Club sandwich be appropriate for a collaborative 17th century playwright, a reggae star who was the first to scale a British summit, and a controversially-tripped athlete?

Question 2
South of England

In which art museum might you find a man-eating beast, a prolific crime writer, Billy the Kid’s would-be pardoner, and the householder of 62 West Wallaby Street in Wigan?

Question 3
Wales

The link between these three pieces is fundamental. What is it?

Question 4
South of England

In what way does each of the following have two titles?

Question 5 – listener question from Jude Rymer in York
Wales

One was the site of a fictional entrance in an unsuitable receptacle; another saw a departure, following a flight from home late in life. A third was the scene of a weekly romantic assignation; and a group braved the supernatural to stay the night at a fourth. What, and where, are they?


Question 6 – listener question from Sandy Duff in Spain
South of England

Where could you find together: a Commonwealth country consisting of 990 islands; a national park in Southern California; a character in the TV soap Emmerdale who retired to Spain; a James Bond actor; and a champion of consumers and children?

Question 7
Wales

A Christmas number which featured a mystery in a red room; an expert to whom 19th century English goodwives turned on a monthly basis; and the photographer of fashionable society. All successful, yet all losers – why?

Question 8
South of England

A 15th century French murder trial, Rose's wedding in the Sudan which received international attention, and the mass excommunication that provoked a theological dilemma. What's the legal connection?

Round Britain Quiz: 2008

Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions

Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge

Poetry and the Russian Soul

Poetry and the Russian Soul: Episode 1: And Poetry Awakens in Me

Episode 1: And Poetry Awakens in Me

And Poetry Awakens in Me

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Pushkin remains the archetype of the brilliant but doomed poet searching for the truth.

Martin Sixsmith explores the heart and soul of Russia's poetry. Pushkin remains the archetype of the brilliant but doomed poet whose quest for the truth carries fatal consequences.

Martin Sixsmith explores the heart and soul of Russia's poetry.

Effectively a creation of the 18th century, poetry was vital in creating a natural language and form of expression as modern Russia forged a separate identity from the old world of the Slavonic church. Pushkin was its first hero and remains the archetype of the brilliant but doomed poet whose quest for the essential truth of his nation and people carries with it fatal consequences.

Martin Sixsmith explores the heart and soul of Russia's poetry

Midnight News

The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.

Midnight News: 02/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Midnight News, 02/08/2008

The Late Story

The Late Story: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret

The Late Story: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret: Episode 5: Pride and Joy

Episode 5: Pride and Joy

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret

Pride and Joy

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As Ehud Guznik gets bigger, he discovers that his parents seem to get smaller.

Stories by the young Israeli writer. As Ehud Guznik gets bigger, he discovers that his parents seem to get smaller. Read by Henry Goodman.

Short stories by the young Israeli writer

Selection of BBC World Service Programmes

A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes

BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service

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